Scott Jackson has been appointed
an assistant attorney general in the district attorney
assistance section of the criminal justice division
with the Oregon Department of Justice. Jackson received
his J.D. from Willamette University. Jackson worked
in the Beaverton city attorneys office as city prosecutor
and was briefly in private practice. The majority of
his experience has been as a deputy district attorney
in Clackamas County.

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Summer Saad has been appointed
an assistant attorney general in the corrections litigation
unit of the trial division with the Oregon Department
of Justice. Saad received her J.D. from the University
of Oregon, where she was a member of Oregon Law Review.
During law school, Saad served an internship with the
U.S. attorneys office. After law school graduation,
she was in private practice in Eugene and most recently
a deputy district attorney in Harney County.

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Kate Lonborg has been appointed
an assistant attorney general in the special litigation
section of the trial division of the Oregon Department
of Justice. Lonborg received her J.D. from Northwestern
School of Law at Lewis & Clark College, where she
was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Small and Emerging
Business Law. Lonborg clerked in the human services
section of the general counsel division with the Department
of Justice during law school. After graduation, she
was in private practice in Portland.

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Linda Guss has been appointed an
assistant attorney in charge of the human services section
of the general counsel division with the Oregon Department
of Justice. Guss received her J.D. from Willamette University,
where she was form editor of Willamette Law Review.
Guss joined the department in 1988 as an assistant attorney
general in the family law section of the civil enforcement
division. In 1996 she transferred to the human services
section of the general counsel division, where she has
been coordinating legal advice to child welfare programs.

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Joan S. Kelsey, formerly assistant
city attorney for the city of Wilsonville, is now of
counsel to Beery & Elsner. Kelsey will continue
to practice exclusively in the area of municipal law,
with an emphasis on land use, public infrastructure
development and financing and public contracts.

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Lorne O. Dauenhauer has joined
the law firm of Lane Powell Spears Lubersky in the Portland
office as an associate and will continue to concentrate
his practice in the areas of employee benefits, ERISA
and executive compensation. In 1999, Dauenhauer joined
Lane Powell as a law clerk and ERISA consultant while
also attending law school. Prior to joining the firm,
he was a senior associate with Dougherty Petroff Associates,
specializing in administration, design and actuarial
consulting for qualified and nonqualified retirement
plans.

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Fewel & Brewer of Corvallis, Ore.,
announces the addition of David E. Coulombe.
Coulombe is a 2002 graduate of Willamette University
College of Law who was admitted to practice law in Oregon
in October 2002. Prior to joining the firm, Coulombe
worked as a court operations specialist for the Oregon
Judicial Department and also did research for Clark,
Lindauer, Fetherston, Edmonds and Lippold of Salem and
for Willamette University College of Law. He spent 18
years in the timber industry prior to this career change.
He will be handling prosecutions for the municipal courts
of Corvallis and Philomath, as well as receiving new
private-sector clients.

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Bullivant Houser Bailey announces the
addition of seven associate attorneys to its Portland
office. Beth Cupani practices in the firms special
investigations and coverage unit, a specialized branch
of the firms insurance practice group. Formerly, Cupani
was deputy public defender appellate attorney in Salem.
She received her J.D. from Northwestern School of Law
of Lewis & Clark College in 1995. Anthony L.
Reiner joins the firms insurance coverage practice
group. He is a former deputy district attorney for Clatsop
County. Reiner received his J.D. from Willamette University
College of Law. Seth H. Row has joined the firms
employment practice group and will focus on employment
discrimination litigation. Most recently, Row served
a two-year clerkship for the Hon. Fred Van Sickle, Chief
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District
of Washington. He received his J.D. from Georgetown
University Law Center in 1998. Holly E. Pettit
is part of the firms insurance coverage practice group.
She received her J.D. from Northwestern School of Law
of Lewis & Clark College. Nicole Commissiong
will focus on insurance defense for the firms general
practice group and also joins the business litigation
practice group. Prior to her work at the firm, she was
a clerk for Lane County Circuit Court. Commissiong received
her J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law.
Kevin E. Barton will be a member of the firms
general litigation practice group. He received his J.D.
from Notre Dame Law School, where he was a Thomas J.
White Scholar on Law and Government and the vice president
of the Public Interest Law Forum. Christopher M.
Veley focuses on defending businesses, insurance
companies and individuals in tort litigation, particularly
in matters involving motor vehicle collisions for the
firms general litigation practice group. Veley received
his J.D. from Gonzaga University School of Law.

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The Hon. Donald O. Costello; Robert
James Miller, assistant professor Lewis & Clark
Law School, and David B. Thompson, Portland attorney,
were appointed in August 2001 as appellate court judges
for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community
of Oregon.

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Bill Pierznik has joined the Portland
office of Stoel Rives as an associate in the firms
corporate and intellectual property practice groups.
Pierznik was formerly an associate at Cooley Godward
in Palo Alto, Calif. and has worked with a broad range
of business entities, from Fortune 500 companies to
start-ups. He has represented and counseled emerging
growth and established technology companies in a wide
variety of intellectual property, corporate and transactional
matters. He has significant experience in technology
licensing and acquisitions (including software, hardware
and content), commercial transactions, Internet law,
electronic commerce, strategic relationships, venture
capital financing and mergers and acquisitions.

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Arden Shenker of the law offices
of Arden E. Shenker, and Robert and Nell Bonaparte
of Bonaparte & Bonaparte, have merged their
practice in complex civil litigation to become the new
firm of Shenker & Bonaparte, located at 475 Benjamin
Franklin Plaza, One S.W. Columbia, Portland, Ore. 97258.
Their phone numbers remain the same: (503) 294-1118
or (503) 242-0005, and the fax numbers are: (503) 294-0015
or (503) 323-7360.

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Loren Collins has been appointed
as the attorney in charge of the commercial and environmental
section of the trial division of the Oregon Department
of Justice. Collins received his J.D. from Willamette
University. During law school, Collins was a clerk for
the U.S attorney for the district of Oregon. Collins
has been in private practice in Corvallis and Salem,
including a period as a sole practitioner.

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Saalfeld Griggs, with offices in Salem
and Bend, announces that April A. Dillman has
recently joined the firms corporate practice group.
Dillman obtained her her law degree from Gonzaga University
School of Law in 2002. Her practice will focus on business
and corporate law.

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Stoel Rives welcomes two new associates.
Sarah Adams Lien joins as an associate in the
firms intellectual property practice group. Adams Lien
was a summer associate at Stoel Rives in Portland during
2001. She clerked for the Oregon Department of Justice,
appellate division. Adams Lien received her law degree
from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark
College. Jason Dalton joins as an associate in
the firms corporate practice group. During 2001, Dalton
was a summer associate at Stoel Rives in Portland and
Preston, Gates & Ellis in Seattle. Previously, Dalton
was an intern at Greater Boston Legal Services. Dalton
received his law degree from Harvard Law School.

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Marc Abrams has been appointed
as an assistant attorney general in the trial division
of the Oregon Department of Justice. Abrams received
his J.D. from the University of Michigan. Abrams has
worked as an assistant professor of journalism at the
University of Oregon, an adjunct professor of communications
at Temple University and an adjunct professor of equitable
remedies at Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and
Clark College. Abrams has been in private practice in
Philadelphia and Portland.

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Ingrid McTaggart has relocated
her office to 534 S.E. 58th Ave., Portland, Ore. 97215-1824.
Phone: (503) 230-7934; fax: (503) 230-7935. E-mail remains
the same: ingrid@e-z.net. She continues to practice
in the area of intellectual property, including patents
and trademarks.

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Antonia De Meo and David
Yeager are now working for the Human Rights Chamber
for Bosnia and Herzegovina. The chamber is an international
tribunal created under the Dayton Peace Agreement to
decide individual cases of human rights abuses occurring
in Bosnia and Herzegovina. De Meo joined the registry
of the chamber as an international staff attorney in
November 2000, and in August 2002 she was promoted to
international deputy registrar. In her new position,
she also now supervises the work of 15 national and
international lawyers and legal interns, and she manages
the legal work of the chambers field office in Banja
Luka. Yeager joined the registry of the chamber as an
international staff attorney in June 2002, and he is
based in Sarajevo. De Meo and Yeager were both
formerly associate attorneys with the Portland firm
of Markowitz, Herbold, Glade & Mehlhaf.

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Renιe E. Jacobs has joined
the law firm of Geffner & Bush in Los Angeles. Her
practice focuses on the representation of unions in
all phases of labor law and clients include the Writers
Guild, Screen Actors Guild, International Alliance of
Theatrical Stage Employees and Directors Guild. She
can be reached at 3500 W. Olive Ave., Suite 1100, Burbank,
Calif. 91505; phone: (818) 973-3200; e-mail: rjacobs@
geffner-bush.com.

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Weatherford, Thompson, Cowgill, Black
& Schultz of Albany announces the addition of Joel
D. Kalberer as an associate attorney. Prior to joining
the firm, Kalberer maintained a practice in Eugene and
served as an administrative hearings officer for the
Linn-Benton Housing Authority. Kalberer is a 2001 graduate
of the University of Oregon School of Law. He practices
in the area of civil litigation, land use and business
law. He will also continue work as a hearings officer.

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Zachary J. Fruchtengarten has joined
Gevurtz, Menashe, Larson & Howe as an associate
in the firms Portland office. Fruchtengarten received
his J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Oregon in
2001. He also received a B.S. degree in Finance and
Management from the U of O in 1996. He was previously
a multistate tax services consultant for the accounting
firm of Deloitte & Touche.

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Dunn, Carney, Allen, Higgins & Tongue
announces the addition of Anne Foster. She focuses
on general civil litigation with an emphasis on physical
injury, professional malpractice and product liability.
Foster earned both her J.D. from the University of Oregon
School of Law in 1999. While attending law school, she
assisted the National Association of Attorneys General
in distributing more than $9.6 billion of discretionary
funds from the national tobacco settlement to the many
states and provinces involved. Foster was previously
with Tooze, Duden, Creamer, Frank & Hutchinson,
where she did litigation work in federal and state medical
and professional malpractice cases. Foster can be reached
at adf@dunn-carney.com.

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Dunn, Carney, Allen, Higgins & Tongue
announces the addition of Kyle Stinchfield. He
will focus on retirement planning and tax law as well
as general business, corporate and transactional work.
After earning his B.A. in Psychology in 1997 from the
University of Puget Sound, Stinchfield completed his
MBA and J.D. from the University of Oregon in 2001.
Most recently he completed his L.L.M in taxation from
New York University. Stinchfield can be reached at kjs@dunn-carney.com.

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Criminal defense attorney Linda C.
Severin has joined the Seattle office of Garvey
Schubert Barer. Severin was an assistant U.S. attorney
with the U.S. attorneys office for the Southern District
of New York (Manhattan) from 1984 to 1992, and is the
former law partner of Richard C. Tallman, now a judge
on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Previously Severin
was a member of the white-collar defense practice group
at Bogle & Gates from 1992 to 1999, becoming a partner
in 1994. Most recently, she worked in the general counsels
office at Boeing.